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Google My Business Post feature is Live in India

Google
has launched a new post feature in Google My Business. Now local business
owners can add a Google My Business post in their business location pages. This
feature will help marketers/business owners to attract more mobile search users
to website which ultimately results in lead generation. My business post’s
primary objective for a business owner is to exhibit their day to day lead
items, offers and events (celebrations) in their business page, so customer can
easily find out while searching with related search queries.

Google
Post was first tried in USA and then to Brazil, Now this feature is available
in India & other countries. Users can avail this facility by using My
Business App or from Desktop.

How to Add Post in Google My Business Listing?

In
this post I’m giving you a tutorial of how to add a post in Google business
page with screenshots & step by step detailed explanation,

Step
1: Sign In to your Google My Business account

This
feature is only available from dashboard for the admin.

Step
2: You are in Account Summary & Listing page

Summary
of all listing available in the logged in account will be visible in this
screen including published locations, pending reviews, not published locations
etc.

Step
3: Click Manage Location of a published page

This
feature is only available for published pages, unpublished pages doesn’t have
an option for Business post. Suggest an edit won't work for this feature, admin is the only person who can post.

Step
4: Click “Post” from the left hand menu under Home

A
label “new” is hanging side of the Post menu, you can easily find out.

Step
5: Click on “Write your post” field

You
can add a detailed post with a word span of 100-300 words.

Step
6: Add Image by clicking on the field & Write Post

You
can add an excellent picture related to the content.

Step
7: Click Preview the post & publish

Publish
only after checking the image & content.

How to Add Event in a Google My Business Post?

Above steps give you an idea of how to
add a post, in this section you will see how to add an event in Google My
Business post? This feature is to announce or let customers know about any
events that going to happen on that particular business location. Customer can
find about this event from the Google My Business page when searching for queries
related to the page’ service & location.

Everything same until Step 6 on above section, before proceeding to publish please follow these
steps

Step 1: Enable “Make this post an event”

This is for enabling the event feature

Step 2: Put a title for the event. Add
event Start date, Start time, end date & end time.

Now you have added an event

Step 3: Click Preview the post &
publish

Post & Event Published

Add a Button on Google My Business Post

Add a button is a call to action, Admin
can fill in a website address related to the post. There are types of buttons,

Learn More

Reserve

Sign Up

Buy

Get offer

Everything same until Step 6 on above section, before proceeding to publish please follow these
steps

Conclusion

Google Local Business is a free business listing service. Business locations can be included in this listing by verifying your business address. Google has announce Google post feature & now its live in India, I hope you got a better idea on how to add post in Google my business. Feel free to comment & subscribe for future updates.